Nnedi Okorafor (Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor) Quotes
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I don't understand why every guy is not a romantic. I enjoy it.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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As a GM Goodwrench Service Plus dealer, I understand how good service makes a difference to our customers.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Men are separated by so many petty things.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
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The first thing to understand about surveillance video in public places is that there is already a lot of it going on - though it is impossible to know how much.
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As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
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My appearances are almost theatrical performances. I bring items for the children to see, such as photographs and actual piece of meteorite, a family quilt, sometimes spectacles, sometimes clothing, so that they can understand what I write about is family stories based in fact.
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Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
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The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river.
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Success is like a lovely woman, wooed by many men, but folded in the arms of him alone who, free from over-zeal, firmly persists and calmly perseveres.
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Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
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If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
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Funny how all things people don’t understand seem to be ‘cursed’.
